Many hours of work have been put into the research and documentation of these ancestors. I hope you will benefit from the information I present here. Please keep in mind that some information presented on this site may not be completely correct, as I have collected some information from other people and websites, and have not yet verified everything myself. If you see information that is incorrect, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE contact me and provide me the correct information! I will then make the correction as soon as possilbe!
Please use the information found on this site ONLY as a guide. I cannot stress enough, that you should verify ALL information for yourself!
I post the information that I 'feel' is correct, so that those who are in my situation (do not live in the area that our ancestors came from), can redily access it. It's extremely difficult, and expensive to travel all over the U.S. let alone the World to research our family history! Therefore I am eternally grateful to those who choose to share! If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be half as far in my research! My payback is to share what I have. I DO have people contact me and inform me of misinformation I have posted, from time to time! When this happens I DO correct it as soon as I am able to!!
A lot of the information included on these pages, has been graciously provided to me by Lee Drew - http://famhist.com (Bennett line), Allen Baskin, Linda DeSoto, Janet Huffmaster Keech and Peggy Grace (Watson line), Mitch Fontan and Davy McGlawn (Jones/McCarty lines), Lori Bush and Margaret Sopp (Sprinkle line) ... and many more for tidbits here and there. I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has sent me information on our families! I cannot thank you ALL enough!! For without all of you, I would not have as much information as I have now!
As this is a work in progress, please check back periodically for updates.
My main surnames of interest at this time are:
ANDERSON, BREON, BRITTON, BROWN, BENNETT, CANNADAY, DENNEHY, FORSHEE, GRACE, HUSTON, JONES, LINGLE, LUCAS, MABRY, McCARTY, McDONALD, METZ, SULLIVAN, WATSON, WEBB, WILLIAMSON
*KNOWN PATERNAL SURNAMES*
CANNADAY, GRACE, JONES, LUCAS, MABRY, McCARTY, McDONALD, SULLIVAN, WATSON
These Surnames come from the following U.S. States
GA , MS, NC, SC, VA
*KNOWN MATERNAL SURNAMES*
AMERMAN, ANDERSON, BEATTY, BLOOD, BREON, BREWER, BRITTON, BROWN, BENNETT, DENNEHY, DIRKS, EARHARD, ENARSETJE, FORSHEE, HUNSAKER, HUSTON, LINGLE, MARGPERGEN, METZ, SPEIS, SPRINKLE, TERHUNE, THOROMAN, VAN ARSDALEN, VAN DYKE, VAN VOORRHEES, WEBB, WEBBER, WENRICK, WHITE, WILLIAMSON
These surnames come from the following U.S. States and European Countries:
GA, IN, NE, NJ, OH, OK, PA - France, Germany, Holland and Ireland.
Other related surnames include:
ARANT, ANDERSON, BASKIN, BEDDINGFIELD, BOWEN, BRITTON, CARLTON, CONNER/CONNOR, FROST, GORE, GRAHAM, HUSTON, HUTCHINS, LONG, MARONEY, PAGAN, PIKE, POE, REYER, RUMLEY, SALTER, SHAW, SMITH, SPEARS, STREET, THOMAS, WALLER, WEBB, WHITE, WILLIAMS and many more!
As this site contains a LOT of information, you may find it helpful to use one of the Site Search engines to the right.
The Family Tree
They think that I should cook and clean and be a model wife.
I tell them it's more interesting to study Grandpa's life.
They simply do not understand why I hate to go to bed.
I'd rather do two hundred years of research work instead.
Why waste the time we have on earth just snoring and asleep?
When we can learn of ancestors that sailed upon the deep?
We have Priests, Rabbis, lawmen, soldiers, more than just a few.
And yes, there's many scoundrels, and a bootlegger or two.
How can a person find this life an awful drudge or bore?
When we can live the lives of all those folks who came before?
A hundred years from now of course, no one will ever know,
Whether I did laundry, but they'll see our Tree and glow.
Cause their dear old granny left for them, for all posterity,
not clean hankies and the like, but a finished family tree.
My home may be untidy, 'cause I've better things to do.
I'm checking all the records to provide us with a clue.
Old great granny's pulling roots out with glee,
Her clothes ain't hanging out to dry, she's hung up on the Tree.
-- Author Unknown --